75%

That’s the “rate of conviction” for all rape charges brought before a jury

For allegations involving complainant:
Female child under 13
84%
Female under 16
80%
Female under 16 (historic)
78%
Female 16 years or over
67%
Male 16 years or over
63%
Female 16 or over…

A shocking situation. #HumanRights #healthcare

Ineos has enjoyed £700,000 in grants from Scottish Enterprise since the start of 2021 despite refinery closure theferret.scot/ineos-claims-g… via @ferretscot

Quite astonishing decision as they extend Ineos Licence to frack in Central Scotland. This is what the Forth FREEPORT is all about. He shuts Grangemouth and receives hundreds of millions to build a new refinery in Belgium plus a bonus to frack in Scotland.

For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Climate change court win - ‘The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.’ #humanrights #ECHR

Surreal; This awesome graduation dance video got these female students into trouble. They now face prosecution for the “crime” of dancing during their graduation ceremony at Al-Zahra University in Bushehr, Iran. The university president threatened legal action against all these…

EXCL: Three former supreme court justices, including the court’s former president Lady Hale, are among more than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

This matters 👇. Centuries of protection being quietly dismantled by a parliament which is currently held in disrepute, internationally.

Tony Lenehan KC: Scotland bound for weakest presumption of innocence in common law world @scottishlegal scottishlegal.com/articles/tony-…

Law society: juryless trials plan “flawed, and lacking detail and supporting evidence”; Scrapping ‘not proven’ without any balancing provisions would be entirely unacceptable..with unforeseeable outcomes.” STV News Dr Kath Murray

Damaged Beyond Repair? International Law after Gaza | by Fuad Zarbiyev

ejiltalk.org/damaged-beyond…

STATEMENT: Scottish PEN calls on Scottish Government to immediately delay the implementation of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 – more details in statement below.

The Honourable Yona Joanna Cherry KC Wings Over Scotland Not all of them Yona.

See this excellent critique of the woeful state of preparedness and likely consequences from Police Superintendents

Michael Foran James Chalmers Practising criminal lawyers are now used to the obsessive legislating in the field of criminal justice. We’ve reached the point where an agency network will now record but not intimate to the “culprit” a non crime hate incident which will be subject to disclosure requirements.

Huge congratulations to our awesome colleague Jasmin Paris for making sporting history as the first woman ever to finish the Barkley Marathons.

#BM100 #ultrarunner #smalleuropeanwoman
📷Howie Stern

A list of red flags to determine quality of #EDI advice or training in UK
1. does it mention the 9 Protected Characteristics in Equality Act and name them accurately?

Unite, UNISON, the British Medical Association (BMA) join civil action to block UK arms factories middleeastmonitor.com/20240321-trade…

Politicians’ net favourability ratings: March 2024

Keir Starmer: -18
Sadiq Khan: -32
Nigel Farage: -40
Jeremy Corbyn: -41
Nicola Sturgeon: -44
Boris Johnson: -46
Jeremy Hunt: -48
Rishi Sunak: -50
Liz Truss: -73

Rachel Reeves: -6 (54% say 'don't know)

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

#WorldPoetryDay

A funded PhD opportunity Strathclyde Law School working with Simon Halliday and me in the field of administrative law. Linked directly to Joe Tomlinson et al at the Administrative Fairness Lab too.

findaphd.com/phds/project/t…